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9 APR 1948 JAYA BACHAN BORN

Jaya Bachchan

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Jaya Bachchan
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MP from Uttar Pradesh[1]
Assumed office
3 April 2012
Personal details
BornJaya Bhaduri
9 April 1948 (age 68)
Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India
Political partySamajwadi Party
Spouse(s)Amitabh Bachchan (m. 1973)
RelationsSee Bachchan family
ChildrenAbhishek, Shweta
AwardsIND Padma Shri BAR.png Padma Shri (1992)
Years active1971–1981, 1998–Present
Jaya Bhaduri Bachchan (born Jaya Bhaduri on 9 April 1948) is an Indian politician and film actress. She is an alumna of the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. She is the wife of actor Amitabh Bachchan, and is the mother of actor Abhishek Bachchan, who himself is married to actress Aishwariya Rai. Bachchan is recognised as one of the finest Hindi film actresses of her time, particularly known for reinforcing a naturalistic style of acting in both mainstream and 'middle-of-the-road' cinema.[2][3]
Making her film debut as a teenager in Satyajit Ray's Mahanagar (1963), Bachchan's first screen role as an adult was in Guddi (1971), directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee, with whom she would collaborate in several films. She was noted for her performances in films including Uphaar (1971), Koshish (1972), Kora Kagaz (1974), among others.She appeared alongside her husband Amitabh Bachchan in films such as Zanjeer (1973), Abhimaan (1973),Chupke Chupke (1975), Mili (1975) and Sholay (1975).
Following her marriage and the birth of her children, Bachchan restricted her film work in the coming years and after her appearance in the 1981 film Silsila, she took an indefinite sabbatical from films. She returned to acting with Govind Nihlani's Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa in 1998. Since then, she has appeared in several commercially successful films such as Fiza (2000), Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001), Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003), which garnered her critical acclaim as well as several awards and nominations.
During her career, she has won eight Filmfare Awards: including three for Best Actress and three for Best Supporting Actress, which makes her the overall most-awarded performer in the female acting categories, along withNutan. She was awarded the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. In 1992, she was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India.[4]

Early life[edit]

Jaya Bhaduri was born in Jabalpur[5] to a Hindu Bengali family. Her mother is Indira Bhaduri and her father, Taroon Kumar Bhaduri, was a writer, journalist and stage artist. She studied in St. Joseph's Convent School, Bhopal. She was awarded the Best All-India N.C.C. Cadet Award during the Republic Day celebrations in 1966.[6]

Career[edit]

She started her career with a supporting role in Satyajit Ray's Bengali film, Mahanagar at the age of 15, with Anil Chatterjee and Madhabi Mukherjee. Prior to this, she had appeared in two Bengali films: a 13-minute short film,Suman,[7] and a Bengali comedy Dhanni Meye (1971), as Uttam Kumar's sister-in law.[8]
Inspired by her experience with Ray, she decided to join Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune to learn acting, and passed out with the gold medal,[9] and she was also picked out to play the eponymous role of Guddi in the 1971 Hrishikesh Mukherjee film,Guddi in which she played a schoolgirl obsessed with film star Dharmendra.[10] Guddi was a success,[8] and she moved to Mumbai and soon picked other roles, however her role of a 14-year-old school girl, aided by her petite looks, created the girl-next-door image for her, which she was often associated with through the rest of her career. Though she tried to break out of the mould with glamourous roles as in Jawani Diwani (1972)[2] and a negative character of the heroine faking amnesia, in Anamika (1973), she was mostly recognised for roles of this sort, which were credited with epitomising middle-class sensibility and which she played amiably in films of "middle-cinema" directors like Gulzar, Basu Chatterjee and indeed Hrishikesh Mukherjee.[11] These films include Uphaar (1971), Piya Ka Ghar(1972), Parichay (1972), Koshish (1972) and Bawarchi (1972), with marked sensitivity.[10][12] By now, she was a popular star.[8]
In Gulzar's Koshish (1973), Bhaduri and Sanjeev Kumar played a deaf couple who struggle through their difficulties as handicapped people. She described the film as "a learning experience" which motivated to do social work in future.[13]
She first acted with her future husband Amitabh Bachchan in the film, Bansi Birju (1972), followed by B.R. Ishara's Ek Nazar also in the same year.[8] Amitabh had undergone a string of flops, and when most lead heroines refused to work him, in Salim-Javed scripted,Zanjeer (1973), she stepped into the film. The film turned out to be hit and gave rise to Amitabh Bachchan's angry-young-man image.[14] This was closely followed by their pairing in films like Abhimaan (1973), Chupke Chupke (1975) and Sholay (1975).
Jaya Bachchan with her husbandAmitabh Bachchan.
Her daughter Shweta was born while Jaya and Amitabh were working on Sholay. Following this she retired from films and focused on raising her children. Her last film as a lead actress was Silsila (1981), opposite her husband. During the late 1980s she wrote the story for the film Shahenshah (1988) which starred her husband in the lead.
After a gap in film appearances of 18 years, she returned to acting with Govind Nihalani's Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa (1998), a film about the Naxalite movement. In 2000 she starred in Fiza for which she received the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for her work. She also starred in Karan Johar's family drama Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001) with her husband. She then starred in Karan Johar's next film, Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003) playing the role ofPreity Zinta's mother, Jennifer, for which she again received a Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award.[15] She appeared with her son Abhishek in the films Laaga Chunari Mein Daag (2007) and Drona (2008).
In 2011, she appeared in the Bangladeshi film Meherjaan starring with Victor Banerjee and Humayun Faridi. The film is based on a Bangaladesh-Pakistan love story in the backdrop of 1971 Bangladesh atrocities. It is the story of Meherjaan (played by Jaya Bachchan), a Bangladeshi woman who falls in love with a Pakistani army officer who refuses to join the war and saves her from being raped by other Pakistani troops, who do not however spare her cousin Neela and kill her father.[16]

Political career[edit]

Bachchan was first elected in 2004 as a Samajwadi Party member of parliament, representing Rajya Sabha, and in February 2010 she stated her intent to complete her term.[17][clarification needed] She was re-elected in 2012.

Controversies[edit]

Bachchan's speech during the music launch of film Drona was criticized by some sections of politicians in Maharashtra. In response to the film's director, Goldie Behl, making his introductory speech in English, she said "Hum UP ke log hain, isliye Hindi mein baat karenge,Maharashtra ke log maaf kijiye". (We are from UP, so we will speak in Hindi. People of Maharashtra, please excuse us) Subsequently, she encouraged actress Priyanka Chopra to speak in Hindi.[18]Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) president Raj Thackeraycommented that Jaya had no business alluding to all the people of Maharashtra in that statement. He threatened to ban all Bachchan films unless Jaya apologized in a public forum for hurting Maharashtrians. MNS workers began to attack theaters screening The Last Lear starring her husband, Amitabh Bachchan. Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut also criticized her statement saying: "After making all your success and fortune in Mumbai, if you feel like saying that, we are from UP, its very unfortunate." Amitabh Bachchan tendered an apology for her statements on her behalf.[19]

Personal life[edit]

Jaya Bachchan with husbandAmitabh Bachchan, son Abhishek Bachchan and daughter-in-lawAishwariya Rai.
On 3 June 1973, she married actor Amitabh Bachchan. The couple has two children: Shweta Bachchan-Nanda and Abhishek Bachchan, who is also an actor. Shweta is married to industrialist Nikhil Nanda in Delhi, and has two children, Navya Naveli and Agastya Nanda,[20] while Abhishek Bachchan is married to Aishwarya Rai, and has a daughter, Aaradhya Bachchan.[21]

Awards and recognition[edit]

Civilian Award
Winner
Nominated
Other film awards
Winner
Honours and recognitions
  • In 1998, she was honoured with the Omega Award for Excellence: Lifetime Achievement.[25]
  • 2000, Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image, an award for her "abiding contribution to Cinema".[26]
  • 2004, Lifetime Achievement Award at the Sansui Awards.[27]
  • 2010, Lifetime Achievement Award at the "Tongues on Fire" film festival in London.[28][29]
  • 2012, Lifetime Achievement Award at Jaipur International Film Festival (JIFF).[30]
  • 2013, Master Deenanath Mangeshkar (Vishesh Puraskar) Award for her dedicated services to Indian theatre and cinema.[31]
  • She is a recipient of the "Yash Bharati Samman", UP state's highest award from the Government of Uttar Pradesh.[32]

Filmography[edit]


YearFilmRoleOther notes
1963MahanagarBaniBengali film
1971GuddiKusum/GuddiNominated—Filmfare Best Actress Award
1971Dhanni MeyeMonashaBengali film
1971UphaarMrinmayi/MeenuNominated—Filmfare Best Actress Award
1972Jawani DiwaniNeeta Thakur
1972BawarchiKrishna Sharma
1972ParichayRama
1972Bansi BirjuBansi
1972Piya Ka GharMalti
1972Annadata
1972Ek NazarShabnam
1972Samadhi
1972KoshishAarti MathurNominated—Filmfare Best Actress Award
1972ShorRaat Ki Rani/Rani
1972Jai Jawan Jai Makan
1973Gaai Aur GoriNeeta Thakur
1973AnamikaAnamika/Kanchan/Archana
1973PhagunKrishna Sharma
1973ZanjeerMala
1973AbhimaanUma KumarFilmfare Best Actress Award
1974Aahat
1974Dil Diwana
1974Kora KagazArchana GuptaFilmfare Best Actress Award
1974Naya Din Nai Raat
1974Doosri Sita
1975MiliMili KhannaNominated—Filmfare Best Actress Award
1975Chupke ChupkeVasudha Kumar
1975SholayRadha
1977Abhi To Jee LeinJaya
1978Ek Baap Chhe Bete
1979NaukerGeetaFilmfare Best Actress Award
1981SilsilaShobha MalhotraNominated—Filmfare Best Actress Award
1995AkkaMarathi Film (Appearance with Amitabh Bachachan)
1998Hazaar Chaurasi Ki MaaSujata Chatterji
2000FizaNishatbi IkramullahFilmfare Best Supporting Actress Award
2001Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham...Nandini RaichandFilmfare Best Supporting Actress Award
2002Koi Mere Dil Se PoochheMansi Devi
2002DeshSuprabha DeviBengali film
2003Kal Ho Naa HoJennifer KapurFilmfare Best Supporting Actress Award
2007Laaga Chunari Mein DaagSabitri Sahay
2008Lovesongs
2008DronaQueen Jayanti
2010Aap Ke Liye Hum
2011MeherjaanMeherBangladeshi film
2013Sunglass / Taak JhaankBengali / Hindi
2016Ki & KacameoHindi
2016Hera Pheri 3
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